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[Starts to take it and stops]

No! I'll git it some other time!

[Puzzled]

Why don’t you want to take it now?

I dunno whether I’m sober enough yit!

Ha, ha! If that’s all ’at’s worryin’ you, I’ll run the resk!

[He drops the pistol in holster.]

[Nervously ']

We’d better be goin’, Andy!

Wait till I saddle a horse an’ I’ll go a piece with you. I want to see how it feels to have my feet in stirrups ag’in after walkin’ all over the world.

[Who has been looking at the weather signs]

I don’t want to hurry nobody off, but from the way the clouds air a-b’ilin’ over the mountain thar it